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DIAMOND JIM: After entertaining trade offers for...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Gebe Martinez

DIAMOND JIM: After entertaining trade offers for pitcher Jim Abbott for months, the Angels head to baseball’s annual winter meetings in Louisville, Ky., this weekend with no deals on the horizon. . . . “I’m not in a hurry to trade Jim at all, but I am listening,” says Whitey Herzog, the team’s senior vice president for player personnel. “It’s not like we have to trade him. It’s a situation we’ve got to weigh very seriously.” . . . The Angels hope to fortify their offense, which was the American League’s worst in 1992.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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